 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1858 - 710 pages
...directly addressed to our private cupidity or to our private animosity, whatever virtue we have takes the alarm. But virtue itself may contribute to the fall...most touching spectacles of misery, by repeating to him* Lockhart's Memoirs. t "What under heaven was the Master's byass in this matter? I ran imagine... | |
 | Law - 1862 - 720 pages
...directly addressed to our private cupidity, or to our private animosity, whatever virtue we have takes the alarm. But virtue itself may contribute to the fall...benefit on a church, on a commonwealth, on mankind. Ho silences the remonstrances of conscience, 'and hardens his heart against the most touching spectacles... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1864 - 514 pages
...private cupidity or to our private animosity, whatever virtue we have takes the alarm. But virtue it^elf may contribute to the fall of him who imagines that...morality, to confer an important benefit on a church, ou a commonwealth, on mankind. He silences the remontrances of conscience, and hardens his heart against... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - English literature - 1864 - 516 pages
...addressed to our private cupidity or to our private animosity, whatever virtue we have takes the alarm. Bat virtue itself may contribute to the fall of him who...some general rule of morality, to confer an important beneflt on a church, on a commonwealth, on mankind. He silences the remontrances of conscience, and... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1866 - 516 pages
...to our private animosity, whatever virtue we have takes the alarm. But virtue itself, he contends, may contribute to the fall of him who imagines that...benefit on a church, on a commonwealth, on mankind. | And when corporate interests, sympathies, and ethics, confirm him in his misdoing, the last state... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1867 - 832 pages
...directly addressed to our private cupidity or to our private animosity, whatever virtue we have takes the alarm. But virtue itself may contribute to the fall...himself that his intentions are pure, that his objects * Lockhart's Memoirs. t " What under heaven was the Master's byass in this matter ? I can imagine none."... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1869 - 498 pages
...cupidityor to our private cupidity or to our private animosity, whatever virtue we have tak»s Ihealarm. But virtue itself may contribute to the fall of him...the most touching spectacles of misery, by repeating tohimsolfthat his intentions are pure, that his obinvolontairement, à chaque instant, en répand quelqu'un... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 564 pages
...directly addressed to our private cupidity or ; o our private animosity, whatever virtue we have takes the alarm. But virtue itself may contribute to the fall...his intentions are pure, that his objects are noble, 1 Macaulay, iii. 513 ; History of England, oh. xviii. that he is doing a little evil for the sake of... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 568 pages
...to our pritate cupidity or to our private animosity, whatever virtue we have takes the alarm. lint virtue itself may contribute to the fall of him who...commonwealth, on mankind. He silences the remonstrances ft conscience, and hardens his heart against the most touching spectacles of misery, by repeating to... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 586 pages
...directly addressed to our private cupidity or to our private animosity, whatever virtue we have takes the alarm. But virtue itself may contribute to the fall...rule of morality, to confer an important benefit on a chureh, on a eommonwealth, on mankind. He silences the remonstrances of conscience, and hardens his... | |
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... men do for their party, for their sect, for their country, for their favourite schemes of political and social reform, what they would not do to enrich or to avenge themselves. At a temptation directly addressed to our private cupidity or to our private... 
